Movable Type 2.66

Thursday January 22, 2004 at 1:18 am | Filed under Site

Some of you that have blogs are having trouble with spammers logging comments. I haven’t had this kinda thing happen to me *knock on wood*, but I’m taking every precaution to avoid it.

MovableType just released version 2.66, which includes a stopgap feature to help with comment spam. In 2.66, MovableType now includes a setting that prevents the same IP address from posting comments with the “N” number of seconds set. It also changes the way URLs are embedded in comments (by implementing some redirection), so that spammers don’t enjoy a page rank boost from search engines by posting their URL over and over again.

I’ve also read that MovableType 3.0 will supposedly include a comment registration system that will put an end to automated spamming. But I’m not sure I want a part of that. It’s such a hassle to have to log in to post a quick comment. I guess we’ll see if the spam becomes a problem around here before we tighten the grip on comments.

Those of you that are running off of my MT install (Monique and Olt) have been upgraded to the latest version.

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No Responses to “Movable Type 2.66”

  1. Monique Says:
    January 22nd, 2004 at 10:19 am

    You know that you’re a techy family if you are informed of things like this by reading a blog when you live in the same house. =p

  2. Joe Says:
    January 22nd, 2004 at 10:45 am

    Would you rather I woke you up at 1:18 in the morning to tell you? ;-)

  3. Arlen Says:
    January 22nd, 2004 at 6:56 pm

    I guess Monique has retired her blog? I’m posting this here cuz I know you read Joe’s!

  4. Monique Says:
    January 23rd, 2004 at 7:23 am

    It’s not retired…I’ve just been busy. I’ll get back into it soon.

  5. Joe Says:
    January 23rd, 2004 at 2:06 pm

    That is so funny… It takes preventing spam to actually attract some!